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The Scarlet Slipper Mystery (Nancy Drew #32)
Nancy Drew comes to the aid of the owners of a local dancing school when they receive an anonymous note threatening their lives.
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Nancy meets Helene and Henri Fontaine, refugees from Centrovia who run a dancing school in River Heights. Strange circumstances have brought the brother and sister to United States. When they receive an anonymous note threatenin...more
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From book cover:
Nancy meets Helene and Henri Fontaine, refugees from Centrovia who run a dancing school in River Heights. Strange circumstances have brought the brother and sister to United States. When they receive an anonymous note threatenin...more
Hardcover, 179 pages
Published
January 1st 1974
by Grosset & Dunlap, Inc
(first published January 1st 1954)
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Jan 11, 2012
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The Mystery of the Missing Scarlet Slippers
By: Carolyn Keene
Critique by Margot Buckey
The Mystery of the Missing Scarlet Slippers is about twins named Henri and Helene Fontaine from Centrovia. They come to America, because they are forced out of their country. They are very scared of what might happen to them, so they take their case to Nancy Drew. Nancy and her friends, Bess and George, help the twins figure out what is going on and why. Nancy and her friends discover there are Centrovian men tr...more
By: Carolyn Keene
Critique by Margot Buckey
The Mystery of the Missing Scarlet Slippers is about twins named Henri and Helene Fontaine from Centrovia. They come to America, because they are forced out of their country. They are very scared of what might happen to them, so they take their case to Nancy Drew. Nancy and her friends, Bess and George, help the twins figure out what is going on and why. Nancy and her friends discover there are Centrovian men tr...more
Jun 07, 2009
Wenqian-1e3
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"The Scarlet Slipper Mystery " is about a girl detective , Nancy Drew who meets Helene and Henri Fontaine , refugees from Centrovia who run a dancing school in River Heights . Strange circumstanceshave brought the brother and sister to the United States . When they receive an annoymous note threatening their lives , Nancy offers her help .
But she encounters nothing but puzzles . Are the Foutaines involved with the Centrovian underground ? Have they been threatened by their own countrymen ? Why...more
But she encounters nothing but puzzles . Are the Foutaines involved with the Centrovian underground ? Have they been threatened by their own countrymen ? Why...more
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I did actually enjoy this book it was full of many surprises.It was about a picture of a famous dancer wearing a pair of scarlet ballet slippers. The picture was stolen from Paris and Nancy and her friends soon find out why. Four smugglers hid jewels in the picture and snuck it into the United States. Nancy kept running into these people and started to suspect something. Her friend Mr. Fontain she met painted the painting and was a dark person, just like the people she suspected of stealing the...more
I found this book confusing - there were too many people with too many aliases. I'm not sure if the confusion comes from the update or not. This is the 32nd book in the series and was first published in 1954 and revised in 1974.
A few things that I noticed - Burt and Dave haven't been seen in awhile. Bess and George have played smaller roles. Often they are busy. I sort of miss Bess' timidity.
Ned apparently is more involved with the relationship than Nancy is. At one point in this book he eludes...more
A few things that I noticed - Burt and Dave haven't been seen in awhile. Bess and George have played smaller roles. Often they are busy. I sort of miss Bess' timidity.
Ned apparently is more involved with the relationship than Nancy is. At one point in this book he eludes...more
Nancy meets a Helene and her brother Henri. Unfortunately, someone has been threatening them, forcing them to move around to keep ahead of this individual. Nancy decides to investigate!
The Nancy Drew Mysteries are such great books. My 8 year old recently discovered them and she loves them. The language is not dumbed down and my daughter loves trying to solve the mysteries. She gets so excited with every passing chapter and loves to tell me her new theories on who did it.
There is a reason these b...more
The Nancy Drew Mysteries are such great books. My 8 year old recently discovered them and she loves them. The language is not dumbed down and my daughter loves trying to solve the mysteries. She gets so excited with every passing chapter and loves to tell me her new theories on who did it.
There is a reason these b...more
Henri and Helene Fontaine are from Centrovia, a country in revolt. Their parents died trying to help free the country, and now the H's are getting threatening notes telling them to leave the US. Nancy and Bess have to pull together, with the help of Ned's mom, to keep the Fontaine's dance studio open while Nancy solves the case of jewel smuggling, false identities and the scarlet slippers (worn by the Fontaine's mother who was a famous ballet dancer in Centrovia, but don't otherwise come into th...more
Nancy Drew finds herself right in the heart of another dangerous mystery! There are burglars in her friend's dance studio, Hannah has been tied up to a chair, Togo has been wrapped up in a drape and shoved in a closet, and a famous ballet dancer has gone missing. Not to worry though... Nancy's sleuthing skills have been put to the test and I'm sure will prove themselves trite and true once again!
I read it to my little sister (age 10) before bed each night. She enjoyed it, and the writing is of a fairly good quality for a children's book. Expectedly, the plot was fairly simple, without many unpredictable events.
Altogether, a good children's mystery novel.
Altogether, a good children's mystery novel.
loved it! of course nancy finds her self in some dangerous case involving jewel smuggling! she is on the way to solving the last problem when shes kidnapped does she get away well find out if you read this book.
A really intruging mystery. This one has a mix of ballet and bad stuff(like smuggling,stealing e.t.c) so ballet lovers/ mystery readers will love this as well as anyone else(i think).
My second book to read :)
Carolyn keene is such a brilliant author :) This book has so amny twists. this is thrilling but i enjoyed reading it :)
Carolyn keene is such a brilliant author :) This book has so amny twists. this is thrilling but i enjoyed reading it :)
Read these as a child/teen, so I'm rating most of them a 3 merely based on the fact that I enjoyed them then. :)
Every time I read a Nancy Drew book it takes me back to my childhood and the hope of one day becoming Nancy Drew Sleuth. To this day I collect and read Nancy Drew books!!
Very captivating. I could not put the book down because I wanted to know what would happen next.
Dec 28, 2010
Jess
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Rereading some Nancy Drew and although they are cheesy, I still love them somehow.
I've always loved Nancy Drew but when I found this one I was ecstatic! I mean Nancy Drew mixed with dance! How awesome is that!!! A wonerful Nancy book!
I read every single one of these growing up--I thought she was the bees knees
Don't remember much from this book so I'm giving it two stars.
amizing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!you must read it
First book that I've read and owned way back 2003. :)
Loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
I really like mysteries, and I like this one, too.
Nov 17, 2009
Kristen
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Nancy drew one of the best mystery series I have read!
This one was my favorite Nancy Drew book.
Very good mystery. I loved the Fontaine's.
I remember the first time I read Nancy Drew. It blew my mind that there were girls presented with a brain. Most of the stuff I'd read up to that time, was that girls were sugar and spice - fluffy. No brains. To also learn about George who is a tomboy was a nice validation. Carolyn Keene wrote just for me! That is how I felt. When I did more research, I was shocked to find out, Ms. Keene was actually a man ... writing under Franklin Dixon. I also loved the Hardy Boys. No wonder I loved these seri...more
Great book, but all Nancy Drew books are great.
book 32, 1974 rewrite of 1954 original
I liked this Nancy Drew Mystery
I liked it! It was pretty fun.
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Carolyn Keene is a writer pen name that was used by many different people- both men and women- over the years. The company that was the creator of the Nancy Drew series, the Stratemeyer Syndicate, hired a variety of writers. For Nancy Drew, the writers used the pseudonym Carolyn Keene to assure anonymity of the creator.
Edna and Harriet Stratemeyer inherited the company from their father Edward Str...more
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